Sarnia de la Maré FRSA Author, Musician, Artist

🐎 The Taming of Lady Theadora Blunket A Mills and Swoon Romance Short by Sarnia de la Maré. Lady Theadora Blunket was widely considered a problem. Not a scandal exactly—although there had been murmurs after the incident with the racing stallion and the magistrate’s wig—but she was certainly a difficulty. At twenty-eight she possessed a respectable dowry, an alarming seat on horseback, and absolutely no interest in matrimony whatsoever. Her mother blamed the horses. Her father blamed the French. Society blamed Theadora. For while other ladies embroidered roses and fainted charmingly in drawing rooms, Lady Theadora preferred breeches, boots, and the smell of leather and tobacco. And, on certain evenings, gambling houses. It was just past midnight in the back rooms of the Golden Crown Gaming Club , where respectable gentlemen went to become slightly less respectable and lose their inheritance. A tall young “man” leaned against the far table, coat collar high, hat low, a glass...

🍏 Or find this episode on Apple Podcasts comedy noir, female detective, audiobook short story 🎧 Listen now  on Spreaker  📖 Audiobook available click image   Ginny Greaves: The Case of the Disappearing Demeanour The man had the kind of face you wanted to slap, not hard necessarily, just repeatedly. He stood in Ginny’s office doorway with a limp hat in his hand and an expression that suggested he'd just been accused of something, and was considering whether or not to own it. "Hey, lady, You're Ginny Greaves?" he asked, in a tone that implied he had expected someone smaller, more feminine, and perhaps with fewer cigarette burns on the desk. Ginny didn't look up from her crossword. “Depends who’s asking and whether they pay on time.” He stepped into the light like a man auditioning unexpectedly for a role he didn't understand. His name was Preston Tibb, and Ginny took an instant dislike to him, possibly because he used the word “lady ” within thirty seconds o...